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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Band The Band	5	3.34	+1.66
Blackstar David Bowie	5	3.48	+1.52
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.5	+1.5
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	5	3.62	+1.38
O.G. Original Gangster Ice T	4	2.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	1	2.89	-1.89
Chris Christine and the Queens	1	2.81	-1.81
Bubble And Scrape Sebadoh	1	2.65	-1.65
Parachutes Coldplay	2	3.46	-1.46
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	2	3.37	-1.37
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.3	-1.3
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	2	3.26	-1.26
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Arrested Development	2	3.14	-1.14
Fishscale Ghostface Killah	2	3.05	-1.05

5-Star Albums (6)

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1-Star Albums (3)

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Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Not my favorite band from this era. But the talent is undeniable

Achtung Baby

2/5

Meh

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Would’ve been a 5/5 if it was cover album

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

The Band

5/5

Favorite album so far

Chris

Christine and the Queens

1/5

This is something I would expect to see on a Spotify discover weekly, not on a list of the most important albums ever made

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Turns out all of the Rolling Stones songs I like were on different albums

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

2/5

Meh

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

1/5

Just another album in the continued trend of everything post 1990 being mediocre at best. Except OutKast… that album slapped

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Definitely some bangers. But not every song needs to be 6 and a half minutes long

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

Pretty samey in the first half but felt it picked up after drive (which slaps)

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Pretty solid album

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Very Sheryl Crow-esque. Nothing particularly bad about this album, but no standouts either

Paul Simon

4/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

Not Bowie’s most iconic, but definitely important. Maybe there’s a bit of bias considering the circumstances of this album, but it was excellent with Lazarus being a standout. Essential listening for any Bowie fans

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

After listening to home of the body bag, I definitely felt like this album was gonna turn into a slog to listen. But pretty much right after first impression I was hooked. This album was catchy as hell.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Not many individual songs that I would revisit, but as an album it’s excellent. It only gets better as the album goes on. Favorite songs: River, the last time I saw Richard

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

Trash

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

U2 2 electric boogaloo. I do genuinely like yellow as a song, but it just doesn’t make up for how boring the rest of the album is. If this is the best Coldplay has to offer, I don’t want to hear the rest. 2/5 stars- this better not mess up my Spotify algorithm

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Honestly pretty fun! I think this was the first album by an artist I hadn’t heard before where I genuinely enjoyed what I was listening to. Not perfect, but solid hair metal. Favorite song was tooting bec wreck.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

War pigs, paranoid, and iron man alone set the ceiling pretty high on this one. Great album front to back. Favorite song: hand of doom

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

I obviously know mgmt from the 3 singles on this album, but knew surprisingly little outside of that. I was pleasantly surprised with how good the other tracks were too. This is probably the first album on this that I could see myself adding to my day to day listening. Favorite songs: time to pretend, kids, of moons, birds, and monsters

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Not for me. The style of singing was super grating and didn’t help that every single song sounded the same. The last song on the album actually did something different, but was the shortest. Favorite song: bull session (didn’t have to listen to them sing anymore, and then it was over)

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

If this was only about Eric Claptons skill as a guitarist, I’d have to give it a 5. If it was about how good of a person he was, it’d be a 1. But ultimately it’s somewhere in the middle. Layla is truly an incredible song, but the album title couldn’t be more true. The rest of the album just feels like filler to get to the title track. The guitar riffs are genuinely incredible, but doesn’t make up for the other parts of the songs for me. Also little wing doesn’t hold a candle to Hendrix’s version. Favorite song: it’s pretty obvious here

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

I’ve had a couple of divisive opinions on some of the more iconic bands, but this isn’t going to be one of them. Front to back, this album was great. Honestly, the most surprising thing about this album was how little of it I knew. No notes on this one. Favorite songs: Eleanor rigby, love you to

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

I don’t think I had actually listened to full queen album before. It’s usually just been the greatest hits. Overall, I thought the album was solid, with some enjoyable songs scattered throughout. Transitions from song to song were immaculate, which helped heighten the album as well. Favorite song: Killer Queen